Severan Wrote:A number is both perceived and real. If you think that it is just made up in our heads then you are making the assumption that one baseball is the same as two. That's incorrect and can be proved thusly with a simple bathroom scale.
Precisely.
Mister Agenda Wrote:Thanks for answering my question, appreciated. I am not intending to use the information against you in any way.
Awesome. I was expecting you to troll with, "You're young! You know nothing!", especially with my comment about Rhythm. Thank you for the civility.
Brakeman Wrote:How does this purported soul power itself? How does this soul physically move the ions to make the impulses of thought in the brain. We know how much energy it takes to fire a neuron so where does the soul get this energy?
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Tex Wrote:We have the processing that includes the soul and the processing that doesn't. The physical processing will do most of the work, but some of the analysis is not (quantity, quality, and relation). If I'm shown a blue triangle, there are no activities of the soul for me to know its a blue triangle. If I'm shown multiple blue triangles and asked to count them, my soul has to process the quantity.
Brakeman Wrote:Do stupid people have a stupid soul and smart people have a smart soul?
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Tex Wrote:(A) kid's brains must be practiced at counting to make it quick. The soul here does not to all the work. The child receives the immaterial stimuli, quantity, regardless of training, but the brain has to be trained use it. The soul is not a substitute for the brain, and without a healthy brain the ability to count is hindered just like any physical process. A healthy kid with no training will learn to count on their own, but schools certainly hasten the process.
Brakeman Wrote:Why does LSD cause people to have "trips" that people claim that "enlightens their soul?"
I didn't fully answer this one... LSD is physical stimuli.
Tex Wrote:The soul understands no physical stimuli, only immaterial stimuli.
Brakeman Wrote:Why is the old testament/ old Hebrew notion of "soul" different from what you describe?
I didn't answer this yet at all. The Old Testament primarily uses 2 words (although is at least one more) to say "soul". The first is rauch, the second neshama. The ruach is only ever described in people, while neshama is described in any group of living thing (although not so sure on plants...). Many people take this to mean the words are to designate the difference between people and animals, but that's not exactly the case. Neshama is used to describe people just as much as animals. The only definite conclusion from the original Hebrew is that "ruach" has a unique connection to God. The words could easily overlap in other contexts, but the "unique relationship to God" is an easy conclusion of the connotation of that word. My whole design is actually very very similar to this, although I'm using Greek/Latin styled metaphysics while the OT is in ancient Hebrew. I've already mentioned in this thread that other animals have souls too (my current example is quantity, and many can count) while also briefly mentioning that humans have a "rational soul" which has a couple extra gadgets than the animal soul. This does hit the basic, basic notion of the OT, but the Hassdic Jews today run a 5 part person, not a 2 (I actually run a 3!!!). It's safe to say any metaphysical details on the concept is lost in history. So, in order to find what is actually true, I use logic.
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